Word: lows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short while Saturday afternoon, the class crews will not be able to go out today as was expected, as their boat house is still unopened and nothing is ready for them. The float, which belongs in front of the boat house, has been put out, but owing to the low tides it has not yet swung into position...
...from 2m. 33 1/5s. to 2m. 33s. W. M. Robinson of Worcester Academy broke F. H. Bigelow's record in the 300 yards run, lowering it from 36 1/5s. to 35 1/5s. B. C. Seaver of Brookline High made a record of 5 4/5s. in the 45 yards low hurdle race, in place of the previous record of 6s., and M. C. O'Brien of English High beat his own record in the 16lb shot...
...events will be scratch and as follows: 40 yards dash, 300 yards run, 600 yards run, 1000 yards run, half mile walk, running high jump, putting 16 pound shot, pole-vault, 45 yards low hurdle race. There will also be a team race between Worcester High and Worcester Academy, the two schools winning first and second places respectively in last year's meeting. Five other team races have also been arranged. Twenty schools will compete...
Professor Macvane lectured last evening before a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum lecture room on "The Guiana Boundary Question." He began by describing the physical characteristics of the country. The coast for fifty miles inland is a low marshy country, suited for the cultivation of sugar. There it begins to slope up till it reaches at its highest point a height of 6000 feet above sea level...
...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...